Made of low gauge plastic that has been painted, two years down the line the paint will begin to wear off ala the prophecy. Five years and cracks will begin appearing. Cheap crap fro a $1400.00 machine. Get an MPC and some other gear. Anyone pretending you can make professional music with just this is not only stupid, but also ignorant. Why do you think professional studio have tens (even hundreds) of thousands in gear? What? You think thwy are less talented than you?

Bottom line? Expensive built cheap, skimped on features, and overall buggy. Avoid this like the plauge, people who claim to love it are just pissed they spent over a grand on it. Either that or they are newbies who dont use for anything but chaining the lame presets. AVOID.

Stopping the unit in between a set to change songs is probably also neat, Orbital has been doing that for years. Sometimes they take realy a few minutes before the next song is started. But it has probably to do with the hardware (alesis) sequencers, which need to be exchanged once in a while.. :-)

Arv

--- In RS7000@y..., "headtrik" <visualufouria@m...> wrote: > I have done many shows with it. I ike it alot in a live setting. It > has one main drwback, it seems like a big deal, but once you get used > to it, it's not that big a deal. Unlike a drum machine it doesn't > wait for your entire pattern to finish before it makes the change. > This means you need to change your pattern on the last measure. It's > hard to get used to, but sonically it really CANNOT be topped by > anything else in its price range, period. Some of the sounds are a > bit cheesey, but with all the filters and lfos, effects, etc... you > can turn most of the lamer sounds into something pretty good. That's > really the nature of any sample based machine, some of the presets > are just naturally going to suck. The sampler kicks ass!! The loop > remix is pretty cool, and it does the sample slicing just like > Recycle, and, is really almost as good as recycle. I have (and am > soon doing) a mostly Hard techno live PA. It's a killer machine for > techno. If you use 303s and so on, go to the files section here, and > listen to the 303 clones I made with it. THESE WERE done using the > internal sounds, NOT sampled at all. Those should speak pretty > clearly on how well this machine will work for techno. To get the > best, really rugged results, just like for DnB, I'd take some of your > favorite records, and sample the kicks, and hats right from there. > That is a sound that just cannot be duplicated short of having the > original 909's etc... The way kicks sound coming off of a record, > when they've been extremely compressed sounds sick for live Hard > House/Hard Techno. Anyway, I'm babbling. It definitely is the right > box for what you want to do. The effects are great, the slice works > really well for techno, the 909, 808, and 303 samples inside the > machine are also really high quality. You've got a master EQ, > to "curve" your final mix, and each track has its own EQ as well. > This thing sonically is flexable. Anyway, back to performance, you > can setup patterns into chains, so it will make all the changes for > you, you can convert them to song, etc... Fully dedicated sequencer.

'It has the depth to satisfy even the technically and musically most sophisticated user'

'The sampler is fast and clever'

'People are going to do great things with it.'

'Don't think for a moment that it will only suit dance artists; pretty much any electronic musician or songwriter could use what it's got'

'This really is a machine that makes light work of track creation'

'It's when you really want to get clever that this sampler really shines. The amazing Slice automatically cuts a sample into equally sized bits�.the net result is that 'Sliced' loops respond to changes in tempo and alter speed without you having to do a thing'

'In terms of sheer impressiveness and fun, though, the RS's real-time controllability steals the show'

'The RS is lavishly supplied with knobs and switches'

'The pure 'synth' side of the RS is good, with lots of variety, from subtle and airy to industrial and hard'

'It's a powerful tool for composition, remixing, creative phrase sampling and live performance'